Iran's Boat-Plane-Thing Would Strike Fear Into Other Flying Military Boats if Any Existed

Funniest article here in a while. LOL!!!1!

We should combat this ridiculousness by strapping some laser beams to some highly trained dolphins.

It seems to me like Iran is really taking the whole G.I. Joe vs. Cobra thing too seriously. They are coming up with some wacky military equipment.

Next will be the Cobra Battle Barge.

So they can get like ten feet above the surface? Amazing.

Technically, they'd be Surface Effect Ships.
More efficient than planes, faster than boats.
And sorry charlie. US navy had the XR-1 back in the 60s.
The Russians built a 1050 tonne corvette SES.
The Norwegian navy runs 9 SES for minesweeping.
And an unknown number of Skjold class patrol boats.
At 60 knotts, they are the fastest warships in the world.

Didn't we already have one of these? Something like a boat that hopped? I remember reading something like that it got away without being classifies as an aircraft because it stayed under 20 ft. Or something like that. But this is typical laughable Iranian tech. Just like their "unmanned aircart" that was really just a missle that they strapped another missle to. I think the only reason they are allowed to live is for pure comedic relief.

So Iran has invented the Ekranoplane. Their pioneering science strikes fear in the hearts of Infidels everywhere.

www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/row/rus/903.htm

WOW! Those look like all weather aircraft with OPEN COCKPITS? seriously? Just spray water at them!

I bet the guy sitting in the back seat has a machine gun he pulls out of the floor and fires it across the BOW and STERN of this magnificent flying con-crap-tion.

OH and it even has a NEW internal combustion supplied by VW!!

looks like an EAA Fly-In weekend. And you can actually build a better one in your garage.

The scariest part is that those guys actually sit in those things and fly them!

I would love to see a squad of these attempt to harass a USN ship - they would get cut in half from a small burst of the Phalanx CWIS.

I would love to see them fly these things above ground effect. What is even better is seeing their production line! LMAO. IMO I think Iran technologically is somewhere where we were in the 40's and 50's, maybe even earlier.

LOL!!!!! These are AWESOME!!!!

honestly, it looks like tape from a crazy Japanese game show

The next time World War I breaks out, Persia is definitely going to win. Absolutely no contest, at all... nobody has this kind of gear (anymore).

As an engineer, I would hate facing the following question: what exactly was the point with this excercise and what problem did it solve? Really?

Talk about late to the party. Russia's ekranoplan programs make these look like the toys they are. You want flying boats? THIS is a flying boat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lun-class_ekranoplan

Yeah well these "flying boats" Iran is making wouldn't be much of a match for a Cessna 152 and a .22 long rifle. LMAO. As for them being "stealth" AESA radars will easily pick these up, flying close and fast to the ground used to work against radars a couple decades ago...not anymore. Theres no way in hell Iran can hope to get even remotely close to a Naval battle group with these.

TOTALLY AWSOME!!!!! I WANT ONE!!!!!!

The 'stealth' secret to this technology is that the radar operators will be too busy laughing their asses off to do anything about them. This thing would have little chance of harassing a boatload of armed Somali pirates, let alone any legitimate ocean going vessel. Good luck shooting an RPG from it.

bwahahahahaha!!! You have got to be kidding me. The freaking thing is so load you could hear from a mile away. Just let the phalanx c-wis take care of it.

There is no dignity in fighting that type equipment, c'mon Iran if your not even gonna try then just take your ball and go home.

Even old Japanese Kamikaze pilots feel sorry for these guys....
I’d as soon swim out to a warship with a water balloon and a white flag as give it a go in that no muffler bullet magnet.

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Well...It's way too cheap -n- crappy to call a Sea-Plane.
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Might be pretty cool for picking chicks up, at the lake.
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...and...I just figgered out what this reminds me of.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP-MjB2pYi8

(P.S. ... Can ya ski behind it ? )

The task of this unit is to catch innocent divers, swimmers sunbathers. They need this unit very badly as they already already returned one hiker back to home. They need to catch more pawns.

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Kennard

Technically, they'd be Surface Effect Ships.
More efficient than planes, faster than boats.
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Technically it is called ground effect vehicle(also known as a wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicle, flarecraft, sea skimmer, ekranoplan, or wing-in-surface-effect ship (WISE)) The author of the article probably should've known that as well as the fact that it was news roughly 60 years ago.

And no, it is not more efficient than a plane (although more efficient than a boat)

My 13yo neighbor could prolly shoot these out of the sky single-handedly with this ultralight and .22

WOW LOL. One word -,,,,FAIL,,,,-

Someone needs to have a come to jihad with their engineers.
-It's called a seaplane and they've been around for years.
-Painting them blue isn't considered stealth.
-Open cockpits, not very effective for pilot communication
-No guns, or rockets?
-Using Type IV VW engine may win over some BayWindow folks but it ain't gonna scare anyone except a non ACVW mechanic.
-They DO make a nice synchronized floating display.

I'd love to see an A-10 Warthog go after these things. That would make my day.

Take off the wings and you have something fit for chasin' gators round the bayou.

Iran's military hope is in the "one last bullet" aproach to nuclear arms. Everything conventional that they have would be blown away by drones and cruise missiles about an hour before they figured out they were being attacked.

These are built to be fast speed boats for the purpose of harassing unarmed vehicles who stray to close to wherever Iran determines its sea boundries to be today.

You know...this is a perfect opportunity for a commercial "western" vc firm to call up Iran, say Hey we want to license your equipment for the bass fishing industry and all of a sudden Iran is the birthplace for the new bass fishing boat. Those fisherman are all about speed...this just ramps it up to a whole new level.

Shame...if only they had cable/sat internet access. It would revolutionize that country. Maybe we should just drop thousands of sat phone ready laptops. That could change things.

Why not just like fire missiles 1 foot off the water that way they can actually get things done

lol, what a waste of time and ammo for our navy, we should just arm our ships with piles of rocks and retired baseball pitchers to hit these stupid things propellers when they fly by and take pictures with disposable cameras(irans version on surviellance)

Nice to see Briggs & Stratton landed a contract of such magnitude! These probably get 90 miles to the gallon!

www.flyboat.co.uk
KNEW I'd seen that thing somewhere before.
It's called the ESKA-1, the Iranians ripped it off.
PopSci and PopMech both did articles about this type of craft "back in the dark ages", or the 1990's or so.
Gotta love the Iranian claim to have designed it.
Bought a kit more likely.
*snicker*

I recall when I first came across the ESKA-1 back in the late 70's - early 80's and advertised as a 2 seater Ultra-light Seaplane for Island Hopping. I immediately fall in love with the reverse Delta Wing design, and seaplane wave-hopping capabilities, and the first design modifications that came to my mind, where twin M60 machine-guns and Stringer missile(4)armament.